Show the future of farm land values OF LAND NUMBER OF VALUES DECREASE AS FER pelt LS M IM 1 W will wy 1918 IM 1 im ACRE CM too GAD 15 sim 80 qa 00 so um CS 43 11 1500 40 7 35 when fa farmers are m money on their crops crop the value of plow lula runs runa high and bankrupt les are few reverse the situation and the bankruptcy bankrupt cf line takes a straight upward turn what I 1 Is s happening now farmer fanner bankruptcies are on the Iner increase tase land values are sliding down the scale dua ilu to the slump of agricultural prices since the lie war what does the future hold for farm land owners Is this the time to buy or sell I 1 the scars roebuck agricultural foundation after completing a survey of 0 land values covering coi cn ering a period of sixty years predicts that high land valucia aro mailing coming back anil and that hat within it a decade farm land prices will again be on the climb from the das dais of the civil war to around 1900 farm land values value showed little littie change annd was aas considered a safe investment beginning in 1800 1000 begun to rise by 1010 1910 the acie price hid had doubled still land continued to mile alb calelly because of the advance in tile the prices of farm products the war brought higher prices tor for farm products crop values In cren the result was a hind annd boom by 1920 the average price ot of land pe per acre mm 00 30 higher than in ili INT 1017 at the opening of the war form farm ba bankruptcies dropped front from 2000 in ili 1017 to 1000 in 1019 1919 during the of the war many forms farms were bought during the land liolin it Is estimated that alint 10 per cent of the count country rys forma anin changed hands Iol luIng the war viar the collapse to in prices of gr rains aln s and live stock sent land tu tumbling niblIng for the first time in twenty five years year average plow land decreased in ili value froni from an average of 00 per acre lo in 1020 to IM oft la in 1023 crop values per acre ml fell from 30 36 in 1019 to 15 in 1921 during lh he past mo years there ling hns been a gradual increase the average for 1 1022 heing being 20 and ilesi ani year the im rising to 22 farmer bankruptcy proceedings la in the federal courts bumpei in anil from 1000 in 1920 to in 1923 more thou than 9 A per cent of the lie liand owners in 15 13 corn arid and wheat producing states stated la in the upper mississippi valley ewt 11 their forms in twenty five live hidirs pairs the united states should be producing on a 1 donit lc basis in everything ever tiling thing unless production makes material in Imre cre awn aselt people are mo ing frim the ow land then the farm to city movement will reve itself land values will in increase rease with the price levels bankruptcies will decrease with the file rise in igind values the present tendency in prices Is do down doan an they mai may continue down for a decade during this time land prices may ras considerably hut but with ith a sturn of production prices of arm farm lind land will po go tt up |